Due to the Memorial Day holiday in the United States and vacation, CopyCense will not publish between Monday, May 29, 2006 and Tuesday, June 6, 2006. We will resume our normal publication occasionally on Wednesday, June 7.

K. Matthew Dames

Executive Editor

CopyCense

CopyCense™: The law, business, and technology of digital content. A business venture of Seso Digital LLC.

Issue: Effective today, CopyCense™ will change its RSS feed from the native feed provided by our blog service to a feed offered by FeedBurner. Feedburner is a service that manages RSS subscriptions.

Reason for Change: We had been using the original, native feed (XML) that came with TypePad, our hosted publication platform. While we have been satisfied with TypePad, its metrics and reporting mechanisms are poor. The editorial staff needs better metrics in order to improve CopyCense™ for our audience. FeedBurner gives the editorial staff improved detail about who visits our site, when, and for how long.

FeedBurner does not record any personally identifying information.

What Do I Need to Do (or How Do I Subscribe to the New Feed)? In order to continue to receive CopyCense™ headlines and story summaries in your aggregator or newsreader of choice, you will have to change the CopyCense™ feed address. The new feed address is

http://feeds.feedburner.com/copycense/AdaR

If you click the new RSS feed icon you will be transferred to CopyCense’s new RSS feed page via FeedBurner. From there, you may subscribe to the new feed in one of two ways:

1. Automatically add the new RSS feed to select Web-based news readers such as Bloglines, Newsgator, or My Yahoo!. (You also may subscribe automatically to the new feed from this page if you have certain desktop news readers, such as NetNewsWire.)
2. Copy the URL that appears in your browser’s address bar, and then paste it in the appropriate location in your aggregator.

When Can I Change to the New CopyCense RSS Feed? You can make the change now. Just go to the right hand navigation column and click the icon for the new RSS feed. Follow the directions listed in the previous question.

How Long Will the Old Feed Remain Active? We will keep the old feed active until April 1, 2006. (The old RSS feed has the symbol next to it.) After April 1, all readers must subscribe to the new RSS feed to continue receiving CopyCense™ headlines and story summaries in their aggregators and newsreaders.

How Does This Affect the CopyCense™ E-Mail Service? It doesn’t. If you already receive CopyCense™ by e-mail (through FeedBlitz), you do not need to make any changes. Our technical staff will handle all the changes, and you should continue receiving your CopyCense™ updates regularly. New subscribers to the CopyCense’s FeedBlitz e-mail service automatically will be subscribed to the new RSS feed.

Questions? If you have any questions about this change, or any other aspect of CopyCense™, please feel free to contact us at copycense at g mail dot com.

K. Matthew Dames

CopyCense

CopyCense™: K. Matthew Dames on the intersection of business, law and technology. A business venture of Seso Digital LLC.

Thank You to Our Subscribers

We have had quite a few new e-mail subscribers to CopyCense since the beginning of the month, and our core readers (both e-mail and RSS) have continued to support the publication by reading our content daily. Unfortunately, I have not yet configured a way to send the staff’s graces automatically upon registration. Therefore, I will do so now.

On behalf of the contributors and our editorial staff, thank you for subscribing to and reading CopyCense. Please continue to support this publication by continuing to read it, and referring it to a colleague or friend.

How To Subscribe to CopyCense

You can subscribe to CopyCense in one of two ways.

1. By News Reader/News Aggregator: Readers can receive CopyCense’s headlines and lead paragraphs in your news aggregator. To do this, just press the orange “RSS” button in CopyCense’s right-hand navigation column; that will show you CopyCense’s RSS feed. Enter the URL that is in your browser’s location bar, and copy and paste that URL into the appropriate location in your favorite news aggregator. You will receive CopyCense’s RSS feed automatically and continuously.

2. By E-Mail: Readers also can receive CopyCense’s headlines and lead paragraphs by e-mail. To do this, enter a valid e-mail address into the dialog box in CopyCense’s right-hand navigation column, right below the Subscribe to CopyCense (enter e-mail) heading. Your e-mail address will be sent to FeedBlitz, the service CopyCense uses to manage e-mail subscriptions.

Within 24 hours, Feedblitz will send you a confirmation to the e-mail address you entered. You must respond to the confirmation e-mail in order to complete the e-mail registration.

Once you confirm your CopyCense subscription with FeedBlitz, you will receive headlines and lead paragraphs once a day beginning the following day.

Questions?

As always, if you have comments, kudos, or criticisms — anything that will allow us to make CopyCense more valuable to you — please feel free to contact the editorial staff at copycense [at] g mail [dot] com.

K. Matthew Dames

CopyCense

CopyCense™: K. Matthew Dames on the intersection of business, law and technology. A business venture of Seso Digital LLC.

CopyCense will not publish on Monday, February 20, 2006. We will resume our normal publication schedule on Tuesday, February 21, 2006.

CopyCense™: K. Matthew Dames on the intersection of business, law and technology. A business venture of Seso Digital LLC.

Issue: Effective Monday, January 16, 2006, CopyCense has changed its e-mail notification system to Feedblitz. FeedBlitz turns CopyCense’s RSS feed into e-mails. These e-mails get sent to subscribers at regular intervals during each publication day.

Reason for Change: We had been using Bloglet for our e-mail notification system, but we encountered several problems with that service (including constant disconnection). We believe the change will benefit all our readers, especially those who prefer to get their intellectual property news delivered by e-mail instead of an RSS news aggregator.

What Do I Need to Do? If you subscribed to receive CopyCense news through Bloglet, you don’t need to change anything: your subscription has been moved automatically to Feedblitz.

Where will the e-mails be coming from? E-mails will be coming from one of two addresses: a “Feedblitz” address or CopyCense’s Gmail address [copycense at gmail dot com]. If you have a spam filter activated or are receiving e-mails at work, you may want to configure your e-mail client to place these e-mails directly in your “In” box.

What if I want to become a subscriber? If you are a new to CopyCense and you want to receive timely, relevant intellectual property news by e-mail, you can sign up for Feedblitz by entering your e-mail address in the form located in the right-hand navigation column. Signing up for Feedblitz is free. You will, however, have to have an active e-mail account to which Feedblitz can send a subscription confirmation.

How does this affect CopyCense’s syndication feed? The change to Feedblitz does not affect CopyCense’s RSS or Atom feeds in any way. Our syndicated subscribers will continue to receive their news through their aggregators on a daily basis.

Questions? If you have any questions about this change, or any other aspect of CopyCense, please feel free to contact us at copycense at g mail dot com.

K. Matthew Dames

Executive Editor

CopyCense

CopyCense™: K. Matthew Dames on the intersection of business, law and technology. A business venture of Seso Digital LLC.

CopyCense will not publish on Monday, December 26, 2005, through Monday, January 2, 2006 due to the Christmas and New Years’ holidays. CopyCense will resume publication on Tuesday, January 3, 2006.

CopyCense™: K. Matthew Dames on the intersection of business, law and technology. A business venture of Seso Digital LLC.

CopyCense will not publish on Thursday, November 24 or Friday, November 25 due to the Thanksgiving Day holiday. CopyCense will resume publication on Monday, November 28.

CopyCense™: K. Matthew Dames on the intersection of business, law and technology. A business venture of Seso Digital LLC.